After three years of virtual gatherings, the Texas Conferences on Digital Libraries convened again in-person May 16-18, 2023. The conference took place at the Commons Conference Center in Austin, Texas.
The theme of the 2023 conference – Hi… How are you? – celebrated our return to Austin, and to face-to-face conferencing. The phrase, which references the iconic Austin mural by Daniel Johnston, allowed us to reflect on all that has changed since we last convened in 2019, and to begin forging a new path together.
Challenging our communities
Author, librarian, facilitator, and educator Sofia Leung opened the conference with a keynote address entitled “What is at Work in All of This Work?” Sofia challenged attendees to envision a future of librarianship where we work to dismantle white supremacy and racism in our daily work and in library systems. As librarians and information professionals, Leung aims for us not to be gatekeepers to knowledge or collections but to work as architects to build bridges and connect people to vast knowledges held on Earth. You can learn more about Sofia Leung at https://main.tdl.org/tdl-events/tcdl/tcdl-2023/keynote-speaker/.
Honoring Awards Recipients
The TCDL Opening Plenary was also a time to honor and recognize recipients of the 2023 TDL Awards. These awards honor Texas-based individuals and groups that have made outstanding contributions to the advancement of digital libraries.
Go here to learn more about the 2023 TDL Awards Recipients.
Gratitude for our Sponsors
The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries was generously supported by our sponsor, EBSCO, a provider of research databases, e-journals, magazine subscriptions, ebooks and discovery service for academic libraries.
We are also grateful to TDL’s institutional members, whose membership underwrites and plans conference programming.
Thank you!
TDL is grateful to all of the volunteers, attendees, and speakers who made TCDL 2023 a success, and a return to form as a face-to-face community gathering and high quality professional development opportunity.
Stay tuned for future announcements as our planning committees work to publish conference proceedings and begin planning for TCDL 2024! Sign up for emails from Texas Digital Library so you never miss a TCDL update!
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TCDL 2023 Planning Committee
- Chair: Christina Kellum, University of North Texas
- Vice-Chair: Diane Lopez, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Ammi Bui, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Adrienne Cain, Baylor University
- Mingyu Chen, University of Texas at Dallas
- Aaron Choate, University of Texas at Austin
- Lisa Cruces, Texas State University
- Lea DeForest, Texas Digital Library
- Susan Elkins, Sam Houston State University
- Cynthia Henry, Texas Tech University
- Gabrielle Hernandez, University of Texas at Rio Grande Valley
- Meagan Hernandez, Texas Digital Library
- Sylvia Jones, Southern Methodist University
- Colleen Lyon, University of Texas at Austin
- Ima Oduok, Texas Digital Library
- Phebe Raglin, Texas A&M University – Corpus Christi
- Adrian Shapiro, Texas Woman’s University
- Elliot Williams, University of Texas at San Antonio
- Heidi Winkler, Texas Tech University